History Post-confederation (1867-)
Contributing Citizens
Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2009
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), Social History
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774858113
- Publish Date
- Jan 2009
- List Price
- $99.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774814744
- Publish Date
- Jan 2009
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774814737
- Publish Date
- May 2008
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Contributing Citizens tells the social, cultural, and political history of Community Chests, the forerunners of today’s United Way, to provide a unique perspective on the evolution of professional fundraising, private charity, and the development of the welfare state. Blending a national perspective with rich case studies of Halifax, Ottawa, and Vancouver, Shirley Tillotson shows that fundraising work in the mid-twentieth century involved organizing and promoting social responsibility in new ways, sometimes coercively. In the 1940s and 1950s, fundraisers adopted the language of welfare state reform and helped to establish both the notion of universal contribution and the foundation of community organization from which major social policies grew. Peopled by a host of forceful characters, this is a lively account of how raising money raised the level of Canadian democracy.
About the author
Awards
- Short-listed, Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
- Short-listed, John A. Macdonald Prize from the Canadian Historical Association
Contributor Notes
Shirley Tillotson is Chair of the Department of History at Dalhousie University.